Sword Roaring in the Sky

Chapter 135 Promoted to Fourth Grade
When Sun Yanwan started to retreat, he really liked to eat the fasting pills made by his master Si.

This thing actually has nothing to do with pills. It is a kind of dry food made by mixing grains, dried fruits and honey. Each school has its own secret recipe. It can be stored for a long time and will not rot or spoil. Martial artists cannot be disturbed when they are in seclusion, so they carry a batch with them and can eat it for a long time.

However, after eating it for a day, he couldn't stand it anymore and quickly changed to the dry food prepared by Sun Lingdie and Namco.

Sun Yanwan's true energy has been accumulated to a great extent. He keeps practicing the Xuanhuang Sutra, and every three hours, he converts his true energy once, sometimes into the Xuanbing Treasure Mirror, sometimes into the Ruyi Qiankun Bag.

After a day and a half of seclusion, Sun Yanwan's whole body of true energy turned into Ruyi. When he was carefully experiencing the miraculous power of Ruyi Qiankun Bag, he suddenly remembered a passage of the Kuruo Sword's formula. Suddenly, he had an epiphany. Although the two martial arts had different mental methods, they had a faint commonality.

The Kurong Gong is to divide the body into two states, withered and flourishing. The Ruyi Qiankun Bag creates countless Ruyi acupoints in the body, which can withstand the impact of external true qi. The Kurong Gong is immune to damage, and the Ruyi Qiankun Bag absorbs true qi and reflects it back.

Sun Yanwan was able to draw inferences from one instance to another, and his Ruyi Qiankun Bag skill broke through to the fifth level. Two hours later, his Ruyi Qiankun Bag skill made another breakthrough, and Ruyi acupoints throughout his body circulated. His true energy was ethereal and clear, and his body and clothes were as light as goose feathers, as if he was ready to fly.

Sun Yanwan didn't expect that it was the Ruyi Qiankun Bag that made the breakthrough first.

The skills of Xuanhuang Sutra, and the other nine changes are all based on Xuanhuang Sutra. A breakthrough in Ruyi Qiankun Bag is a breakthrough in Xuanhuang Sutra, but Xuanbing Baojian cannot break through at the same time and requires additional practice.

After Sun Yanwan's breakthrough, she felt a little awkward. If she went out now, her retreat would be too informal and a bit of a joke. If she didn't go out...

It is impossible for him to accumulate more internal energy and make another breakthrough in a short period of time.

Sun Yanwan hesitated and went into seclusion twice, breaking through the Xuanbing Treasure Mirror. He could not stand the "loneliness" of seclusion any more, so he broke out in a hurry.

Sun Lingdie and Namco were waiting outside. When they saw that Sun Yanwan had broken through his retreat in less than four days, they were shocked. They thought that his retreat had failed and rushed over to comfort him.

Sun Yanwan endured the gentleness for a while before saying, "I just broke through to the fourth level, and I haven't suffered any setbacks!"

The two women's martial arts skills are also extraordinary. Sun Lingdie is a little better, and she is also at the sixth level of martial arts. Namco is even more outstanding in the martial arts world. She is known as the two beauties of Emei together with Sima Ziyan, but she is only at the fifth level.

The two of them had known for a long time that Sun Yanwan had changed his martial arts skills, but they didn't expect that "Little Sun" was so capable that he broke through in just three and a half days?

Sun Yanwan said happily, "My breakthrough to the fourth rank is a joyous occasion. Tonight, my two sisters should make some delicious food, call Master and Aunt Shi, and we can celebrate together."

Sun Lingdie said softly, "I need to slow down first!"

Namco was a little better and said, "Let's do it tomorrow! It's a five-day retreat, a more auspicious number."

Sun Yanwan gladly accepted the suggestion.

Zhang Yuanqiao has realized in the past few days that he has made a "big decision".

There seemed to be not many missing words on the Kurong Sword, but they were extremely crucial. He originally thought that a few days would be enough to complete the sword manual, but the more he studied it, the more he felt that the Kurong Skill was profound and subtle, reaching the level of a grandmaster, not inferior to the Xuanming Yinsha Skill, and even in the Songyang School, it was enough to be listed as a unique skill.

Zhang Yuanqiao pondered for the fifth day, and hadn't yet completed the Withered Glory Sword Manual when his second disciple came running over and said, "Master, my retreat was a great success, and I've been promoted to the fourth rank."

Zhang Laodao looked at his second disciple, half-dazed, thinking he was dreaming… Sun Yanwan suggested celebrating in the evening. Zhang Yuanqiao felt slightly guilty and thought to himself, “I haven’t finished the sword manual yet. If my disciple asks me about it at the banquet, how should I respond?”

Sun Yanwan didn't expect that his master, the great master, would be so troubled?

In fact, if he knew, he would definitely comfort her by saying that if it’s not completed, then it’s not completed, and her disciple may not have time to practice!
Sun Yanwan really didn't have the heart to learn another martial art. For him, the most important thing was to accumulate more internal strength and be promoted to the third level, or even the second level.

Now his martial arts skills have been promoted to the fourth level, especially the Ruyi Qiankun Bag has been cultivated to the sixth level. He has made up for the shortcomings of his lightness skills. Moreover, both the Xuanbing Baojian and the Ruyi Qiankun Bag are complete sets of martial arts, and have tricks to fight against the enemy. They are not just simple internal skills, and he is no longer short of means to fight against the enemy.

Even though he can only use five moves of the Hunyuan Sword Technique in full, he still has the Great Songyang Sword!
During this retreat, Sun Yanwan was really full of confidence and high spirits.

Although Zhang Yuanqiao was reluctant, he still agreed to his disciple's request.

Sun Yanwan told Sun Lingdie and Namco, and the two women would send people to buy ingredients and arrange the menu for the dinner, so he didn't have to worry about anything.

By the time of the banquet in the evening, even Shi Si could sense that something was amiss.

Logically speaking, even if he had practiced martial arts for four or five years, it wouldn't make sense for him to be promoted to the fourth rank so quickly?
It has been nearly a year since Sun Yanwan traveled through time and space, and he is already a thirteen-year-old boy. Even if he has studied under a famous teacher since childhood, can he be promoted to the fourth level of martial arts at this age?
In comparison, Shi Si's second place on the list of geniuses is a bit of a stretch.

Only by having Jiatana, the number one on the list of geniuses, the last disciple of the previous abbot of Longzang Temple, the Great Sun Golden Feather on the grassland, and the little princess of Beiyan, can he slightly surpass her.

At this rate of cultivation, it is a foregone conclusion that Sun Yanwan will be promoted to the innate realm before the age of 20 and be listed on the list of geniuses.

According to what is said about Sun Yanwan's martial arts talent, there are only two people in the world today who can firmly suppress Sun Yanwan in terms of martial arts talent: one is his senior brother Zhang Qingxi from the same sect, and the other is Yang Diao'er, the only beloved daughter of the leader Yang Wuji and the direct disciple of Xuanming Taoist.

This dinner left Shi Si with mixed feelings...

Sun Yanwan was extremely happy. He even made an exception and drank a few glasses of wine, and frequently paid his respects to his master.

Zhang Yuanqiao's heart was in turmoil. Although his disciple was well-behaved and hadn't mentioned completing the sword manual, he still felt that if he couldn't produce results within a few days, he would lose face. Unless...

Grandmaster Zhang suddenly had an idea and said, "Disciple Yan Wan, it's been a while since you came back."

"Not long ago, Monk Kongchan gave me a letter asking you to go to the capital again. He wants to arrange a family background for you first, otherwise you won't be able to participate in next year's imperial examination."

"This time, you have to go alone."

"On weekdays, you are taken care of by the two fairies Lingdie and Nanmeng. You treat wandering around the world as a mere sightseeing. What kind of person have you become?"

Zhang Yuanqiao took the opportunity to scold his disciple, thinking, "By the time he returns from the capital, I will have completed the sword manual."

(End of this chapter)